Cervical Range of Motion Associations With Subclinical Neck Pain

Neck pain is more prevalent in office workers than in the general community. To date, findings from prospective studies that investigated causal relationships between putative risk factors and the onset of neck pain in this population have been limited by high loss to follow-up. The aim of this research was to prospectively evaluate a range of risk factors for neck pain in office workers, using validated and reliable objective measures as well as attain an estimate of 1-year incidence. We assembled a cohort of 53 office workers without neck pain and measured individual, physical, workplace and psychological factors at baseline. We followed participants for 1 year to measure the incidence of neck pain. We achieved 100% participant follow-up. Cox regression analysis was applied to examine the relationship between the putative risk factors and the cumulative incidence of neck pain. The 1-year incidence proportion of neck pain in Australian office workers was estimated in this study to be 0.49 (95% CI 0.36-0.62). Predictors of neck pain with moderate to large effect sizes were female gender (HR: 3.07; 95% CI: 1.18-7.99) and high psychological stress (HR: 1.64; 95% CI: 0.66-4.07). Protective factors included increased mobility of the cervical spine (HR: 0.44; 95% CI: 0.19-1.05) and frequent exercise (HR: 0.64; 95% CI: 0.27-1.51). These results reveal that neck pain is common in Australian office workers and that there are risk factors that are potentially modifiable.

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“…Endurance of the cervical extensor muscles (min) was assessed using the Cervical Biering-Sorenson Test [25].…”

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Individual, physical and psychological risk factors for neck pain in Australian office workers: a 1-year longitudinal study

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“…Individuals with neck pain demonstrate less neck muscle strength (Jordan et al, 1997;Peolsson et al, 2002) and endurance (Lee et al, 2003;Peolsson & Kjellman, 2007), greater neck muscle fatigability (Gogia et al, 1994), and altered activation patterns (Falla et al, 2004;Jull et al, 2004) than persons without neck complaints. Strong evidence exists that physical exercise is effective in the rehabilitation of patients with neck disorders (Kay et al, 2005), but a consensus has not been reached regarding the key components of such an intervention.…”

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A tissue velocity ultrasound imaging investigation of the dorsal neck muscles during resisted isometric extension

2010

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Persons with neck pain exhibit altered patterns of muscle patterning, but limited investigations have been carried out on these alterations or muscle patterning in healthy volunteers. This study investigated the tissue motion of the dorsal neck muscles at the C4 segmental level in 15 healthy subjects during manually resisted head extension. Doppler-based tissue velocity ultrasound imaging (TVI) was used to detect regional tissue deformation, providing indirect evidence of inter-muscular movement patterning. The deep muscles, multifidus and semispinalis, had different muscular movement patterning than the superficial muscles, especially the trapezius muscle. The semispinalis cervicis was the first deformed upon exercise initiation, followed by multifidus and semispinalis capitis. The semispinalis muscles, notably capitis, exhibited a high rate of deformation during the exercise. The trapezius muscle exhibited the least deformation and the lowest deformation rate. In conclusion, TVI provided detailed information on regional tissue activity and muscle movement patterning among the dorsal neck muscles. In future studies, data from patients with neck disorders will have to be matched to data from healthy volunteers in a variety of situations and activities.

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“…Though there are several researches on neck problems, these studies have used questionnaire generated data rather than data from physical assessment (Lee et al, 2004). Hence is the reason for this study that investigates the subjective neck pain and characteristics of the neck region among female sewing machine operators in Sri Lanka.…”

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“…Most of the studies have concluded that subjects with neck pain have decreased neck range of motion than those who have not neck pain (Houck et al, 1997;Hagen et al, 1997;Oord et al, 2010 andLee et al, 2004). According to Vasavadaet.…”

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“…The difference of neck range of motion between "no neck pain" group and "neck pain" group:-According to the results of this study, the neck ranges of motion of the flexion, extension, left and right lateral flexion, left rotation and right rotation were significantly (p<0.05) reduced in the "neck pain" group than in the "no neck pain" group. Many studies report the above result, though these studies have been carried out using different validated equipment with different sample sizes and different categories of participants (Houck J, Yack H J, and Mulhausen P, 1997; Hagen, 1997; Oord V D,2010; Lee et al, 2004 and;Chiu T T and Kai S, 2003). This is evident from the data in Table 5 that compare the ranges of motion of the neck in all directions in "degrees" between people who complained of neck pain(second row) and healthy subjects(first row) in different studies.…”

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Association Between Subjective Neck Pain and Characteristics of the Neck Region Among Female Sewing Machine Operators.

Silva¹,

Ponnamperuma²

2017

IJAR

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Key words:-sewing machine operators, neck pain, range of motion, muscle strength, neck height and circumference.Operating a sewing machine is an identified occupational risk for neck disorders. The scope of this study was to identify whether there is an association between neck pain and characteristics of the neck (range of motion, muscle strength, height and circumference) among female sewing machine operators. A cross sectional, descriptive study was carried out among 100 female sewing machine operators with an age range of 25-35 years in a garment factory in Katunayake Free Trade Zone, Sri Lanka. An interviewer administered questionnaire was used to find out the neck pain distribution. Physical assessment was conducted to assess neck characteristics. Characteristics of the neck among "neck pain" group (who complained of neck pain within last two years) and "no neck pain" group (who had not neck pain within last two years) were analyzed with independent sample t test using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 17. Study revealed that 49% had neck pain within last two years, while neck range of motion, neck muscle strengths of extensor and left and right rotators, neck height and circumference were significantly reduced in "neck pain" group when compared with "no neck pain" group. The study concluded that high proportions of sewing machine operators had neck pain; and there is an association between neck pain and some characteristics of the neck (range of motion, muscle strengths of extensor and left and right rotators, height and circumference) as these characteristics were significantly reduced in "neck pain" group when compared to "no neck pain" group.

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Cervical Range of Motion Associations With Subclinical Neck Pain

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Individual, physical and psychological risk factors for neck pain in Australian office workers: a 1-year longitudinal study

Individual, physical and psychological risk factors for neck pain in Australian office workers: a 1-year longitudinal study

A tissue velocity ultrasound imaging investigation of the dorsal neck muscles during resisted isometric extension

Association Between Subjective Neck Pain and Characteristics of the Neck Region Among Female Sewing Machine Operators.

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